Birmingham obituary index online

BPL's newest database, Obituary Index: Birmingham Area Newspapers, is now available online. The index includes the name of the deceased and the newspaper, page number and date of the published obituary. Obituaries from three Birmingham area newspapers are included (The Birmingham News, Birmingham World, and the Methodist Christian Advocate)

This is an ongoing project of the Government Documents Department and the years covered (as of 9/21/06) are December 1960 - December 1976. There are already almost 100,000 entries in the database.